[Plugin] Lattice Maker

usmanhussain · 29 Apr 2013, 14:51

Hi Guys,

I have installed the latticeMaker.db.plugin for sketchup. I have followed the steps in the following video...
http://34dmedia.wordpress.com/tutorials-instruction-2/sketchup-instructions/...

i am at the stage where i need to extrude the lines but the command extrude lines is no where to be found in the Tool menu in sketchup.

CAN ANYONE HELP ME!!! PLEASE...TRYING TO CREATE A GRIDSHELL EFFECT FOR THE ROOF CONSTRUCTION TO MY UNIVERSITY PROJECT!!

If you can message me on here or email me on usmanalihussain @ hotmail.co.uk that would be much appreciated.

cheers

usman

TIG · 30 Apr 2013, 08:24

@Usman

You seem to be muddling up several quite different tools.

The LatticeMaker is in The Plugins menu - not in the Tools menu.
If you want to 'Extrude Edges' then you will need to install the 'Extrusion Tool' set to get a various tools to make surafces.
There are also other tools to extrude edges into 3d profilesetc...

From what you say you are trying to make a curving glazed roof [?]... I would use ExtrudeEdgesByRails - using four curves that define the perimeter, to make the roof's curving surface.
Then process that selected surface with LatticeMaker, to create the desired frames and panes of glass etc...
Perhaps an example image of the kind of thing you are trying to get would help us help you...

TIG · 28 May 2013, 12:00

Version v1.3 is now available
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=244981#p244981
Download its RBZ archive from the 'SketchUcation PluginStore' page...
OR AutoInstall it from the 'SketchUcation Plugin Store' dialog within SketchUp itself...

charly2008 · 28 May 2013, 15:40

Hi TIG

Some may not know that there are two "Lattice Plugins" from you. I find both very helpful. Would it be possible for you to bring both together in order to get these different results.

Charly

broomstick · 29 May 2013, 18:40

Hi TIG, finally got around to make an Italian translation for this plugin. Tested it, seems to work fine.

Words with an accent in Italian (at the end of a word, sometimes we use è and à) have been replaced without that letter, because I don't know if they would be read.

Anyway, here's the lingvo:

latticeMakerIT.lingvo.zip

Hope it's of use to other Italian speaking users

tulacong · 10 Jun 2013, 20:42

good man

tobias3d · 21 Jun 2013, 02:21

install .rbz? in sketchup

thomthom · 21 Jun 2013, 07:50

@tobias3d said:

install .rbz? in sketchup

Is that a question about how to install RBZ files in SketchUp?
If so: http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/01/installing-plugins-for-google-sketchup/

tobias3d · 21 Jun 2013, 11:27

thanks¡¡¡¡ thomthom

askmo · 13 Aug 2013, 18:07

help me please.
I dwnl Lattice Maker v1.3 20130528 has ".lingvo" file extension, but in the plugin folder it don't work because is not file .rb.
I wonder, how I can do to work it?

TIG · 14 Aug 2013, 10:19

@Morris

Since you have not supplied your OS or SUp version I must guess...

How did you download this exactly ?

Did you get it as a .RBZ file ?
Did you then install it using the v8 [latest version] Preferences > Extensions > Install... button

OR did you auto-install it using the SketchUcation Plugin Store dialog from within SketchUp?

OR did you rename it .ZIP and extract its file/subfolder of files and put these into the Plugins folder, respecting the same relative relationships of files?

This has been covered endlessly on the forums...
Thomthom linked to a relevant post a few items back...
If you do not keep the same relative locations tools just won't work! So for example if you put the tool's lingvo files directly into the Plugins folder you are screwed!

Look in the .ZIP/.RBZ and you will see the tool's main 'loader' .rb and a subfolder of the same name containing a few other files - in the case of this tool there are some .lingvo files used for translations; in this tool's archive there is also a 'deBabelizer.rb' file used for the translations...

The 'automated installation' methods are by far the safest for users such as yourself who are somewhat challenged in this regard... I commend them to you.

If you have mis-installed files you MUST remove everything and start again - in the case of this tools having some duplicated lingvo files in the wrong location won't do any harm BUT for other tools that ship with rb files inside their subfolder moving those out into Plugins will break SketchUp BIG TIME!!
So please don't do it, and if you do tidy up !

archdeacon · 21 Sept 2013, 20:12

Tig many thanks for this great tool. I have a request and question. I am trying to make gridshells (and am trying to avoid using rhino in order to do so hehem) and i am trying to make diagonals drawn accross a surface generated from your extrude tools, then mirrored and reapplied to produce a net of diagonals to then produce a lattice. i have attached what i mean.

any ideas how i would do such a think. Ideally the diagonal rails would not be coplanar. they need to be placed on top of eachother. How do i take them though, apply a thickness to them, then extrude them to make the curved consequtive elements i require...

I would be very, very grateful for any help.

Box · 21 Sept 2013, 20:16

Have you tried Tigs, Extrude Edges by Rails to Lattice which you will find in his Extrusion tools.

TIG · 22 Sept 2013, 09:37

As Box says...

My Extrusion Tools EEbyRailsToLattice offers several options:
There are 3d 'box-extrusions'
Just rail lines
Just profile lines
Just diagonal lines [this is probably what you want... run it twice, picking rails alternately so the two groups of diagonals run oppositely then explode/merge the groups and rails/profiles into one container]

archdeacon · 23 Sept 2013, 09:50

TIG many thanks for this reply. I did exactly as you mentioned previously in order to make the mesh i showed above. I want to make a lattice out of it though. Can the code for your latticizer be modified in order to be able to form lattices in three dimensions in the way that the latticizer works (axially on the line without splitting the lattice along that axis)? thank you for your help in advance.

TIG · 12 Dec 2013, 21:44

Here's a future-proofed update.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=244981#p244981

ppoublan · 3 Mar 2014, 14:12

Dear all,
I'm in the process re-installing my plugins for SU 2014.
Just downloaded from plugins store lattice maker.
got an error
Erreur de chargement du fichier latticeMaker.rb
Error: #<ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8>
I think this is linked to language files not encoded in UTF-8.
Is there newer version somewhere ? or plans to update.
Yours
Pascal

TIG · 3 Mar 2014, 14:19

Thanks for the report...
It should already be compatible with v2014...
If not I'll be able to fix it very easily !

ppoublan · 3 Mar 2014, 14:22

I had a similar problem with my plugin.
Seems it only appears when extended caracters are read from non UTF-8 language string files.
Just re-encoded text files to solve this.
Problem did not occur with US-en version.
Yours
Pascal

TIG · 3 Mar 2014, 14:38

LatticeMaker IS already compatible with v2014.
I just reinstalled it to convince myself !

Please get NEW versions of ALL of your Plugins installed into v2014.
Do NOT copy older versions over - often they may be incompatible...

I do not understand your report regarding the UTF8 error
Did you perhaps copy files, instead of the necessary reinstall from the newest RBZ source ??